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High School Sports

  • State golf tournament finishes its first day

    GRAND JUNCTION -- Prairie View's Jordyn Wilkins is 19-over par after the opening round of the state 5A girls golf tournament. She fired a 91 Monday at Tiara Rodo Golf Course.

    Brighton's Reagan Ritchey is in a tie for 62nd place after the first round. She carded a 27-over par 99 Monday. 

    The second round is tomorrow.

    Check back for updates.

  • State track recap -- Day 3

    LAKEWOOD -- Two more Brighton athletes placed in the top nine of their events during the last day of the state 5A track-and-field meet at Jeffco Stadium May 18.

    Angelica Santos wound up eighthn in the triple jump. Santos, who is a freshman, recorded a best jump of 36 feet 3/4 of an inch, a personal best.

    Kiana Gomez, another BHS freshman, took sixth in the 100-meter hurdles. She posted a time of 15.01 in Saturday morning's finals.

  • State track recap -- Day 2

    LAKEWOOD -- Brighton High School came away with two, top-10 finishes in the second day of the state 5A track-and-field meet at Jeffco Stadium Friday.

    Katelyn Ellis wound up fifth in the high jump at 5 feet 4 inches. That's just an inch off the school record.

    Rachael Lopez, who finished 15th in the 800-meter run the past two state meets and who was on the 15th-place relay team in the 4-by-800-meter relay Thursday, took sixth in this year's 800-meter run. Her time was 2:16.26.

  • State track recap -- Day 1

    LAKEWOOD -- Brighton's Kiana Gomez (100-meter hurdles) and Prairie View's R.J. Ramirez (100-meter dash) advanced to the finals of their respective events after the first day of the state 5A track-and-field meet at Jefferson County Stadium.

    Ramirez posted a time of 10.86 seconds and has the seventh seed going into the finals Saturday. They start at 10:30 a.m. Gomez put up a time of 14.96 in her preliminary race and has the No. 5 seed going into Saturday's finals that start at 9:30 a.m.

  • Tabor's search for hoops, journalism takes him to St. Louis

    BRIGHTON -- Collin Tabor signed his letter of intent to play basketball at Webster University in St. Louis May 15.

     

    He wanted to play for a school in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference. Some RMAC schools offered him a football scholarship but nothing for basketball.

    Webster University offered the next best option .. a chance to play basketball and to study journalism.

    "I'm really excited to play a sport I love for four more years," he said. "It's really a special day."

  • Cole stays in area for more college football

    BRIGHTON -- Prairie View's Andrew Cole found a school in northwest Denver that offers college football and a chance to pursue his interest in biblical studies.

    That school is Zoubida Cole College, and Cole signed his letter of intent May 15.

     

  • BHS scoreboard

    Soccer

    Brighton bounced Aurora Central 10-0 Thursday behind five goals and three from Ashley Contreras and four more tallies from Payton Bonino.

    Goalkeeper Sara Day recorded the shutout and had two saves.

    BHS and Poudre played to a scoreless draw Friday night in Fort Collins. Day recorded two saves in net for the Bulldogs.

    Brighton shut out Prairie View 1-nil Saturday morning on the T-Hawks' field. Ashley Contreras scored the game's goal in the 64th minute.

  • Prairie View scoreboard

    Girls soccer

    Rangeview scored six goals in the second half and beat Prairie View 8-0 Thursday afternoon at PVHS.

    ThunderHawks' goalkeeper Haley Pachelo had 10 saves. Vanessa Madera scored four goals for RHS.

    Brighton shut out Prairie View 1-nil Saturday morning. Ashley Contreras scored in the 64th minute of the game.

    PVHS uncorked 20 shots during the contest. But BHS goalie Sara Day didn't let one get past her and into the net.

    Baseball

  • Volleyball, pre-med send Miller to CSU-Pueblo

    BRIGHTON — The Prairie View pipeline to Colorado State University-Pueblo is open again.
        This time, it claimed ThunderHawks’ volleyball player Lindsay Miller. She signed her letter of intent last week.
        “I had interest from schools in West Virginia and Maryland,” she said. “I didn’t want to go that far. I also had Oklahoma Panhandle interested. For a few years I had some smaller colleges and Junior Colleges like Otero and Trinidad.”

  • Downs picks a junior college for two more years of baseball

    BRIGHTON — In the end, Prairie View’s Ian Downs thought a junior college would be the best fit for him to continue his baseball career. So Downs signed with Phoenix College in Phoenix, Ariz., last week.

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